Person:John Balfour (6)

John Hutton BALFOUR was b. 15Sep1808 (son of Andrew Balfour and Magdalene Goldie) and d. 11Feb1884 at Inverleith House, Edinburgh; John marr Marion Spottiswood BAYLEY (1829-16jun1879) 8aug1848 at Edinburgh (J. Aglen).

John Hutton Balfour marr Marion Spottiswood Bayley, dau of Isaac Bayley, 8aug1848 at S. Leith, Midlothian (familysearch). John Hutton Balfour, esq., MD, Prof of Botany, marr Marion Spottiswood, dau of Isaac Bayley, esq., of Manuel, 8aug1848, Regent Terr., Edinburgh (Dundee Courier, findmypast). Marion Spottiswood, wife of John Hutton Balfour, MD, dau of late Isaac Bayley of Manuel, d. 16jun1879 at Inverleith Hse, Edinburgh (Dundee Courier).

Will (39 pages) of John Hutton Balfour (d. 11feb1884 Edinburgh) (scotlandspeople). Andrew Balfour and Magdalane/Magdalene Goldie had children 1811-27 at Edinburgh (familysearch). John was Professor of Botany at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities (J. Aglen). John was a near relative of James Hutton, author of „Theory of the Earth“ (obituary of son Isaac, Times).

Marion Spottiswood Bayley was b. 16Feb1828 at Edinburgh, dau of Isaac Bayley and Mariona Spottiswood Baird (familysearch). Marion Spottiswood, wife of Isaac Bayley of Manuel and eldest dau of late Principal Baird, Edinburgh University, d. 7dec1863 at 13 Regent Terrace (Caledonian Mercury, findmypast).

In 1861 and 1871 John Hutton Balfour (1809, Prof of Medicine and Botany), wife Marion Spottiswood (1828), son Isaac Bayley (1853) were at St. Bernards, Midlothian; in 1861 birthplaces were Midlothian, in 1871 Edinburgh (census findmypast).

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